Black Tuesday?

[Billy Nees]

OK, I brought up this point on Larry Hill's thread "HP for Christmas. Over the last few years we've had most of the now "killer combos" either "physically enhanced"(different carbs, alum. heads, optional cams,etc.), "competitively enhanced"(HP give back), "chemically enhanced"(well you know but tech doesn't) or just plain "built enhanced and blessed"(CJs, Challenger Drag Packs) and they can all run a week under and get themselves "beat up" with horsepower by the AHFS!
So f**king what! I wasn't going to "whine" but I can't bite my tongue anymore.
Ten years ago I could show up at an NHRA event and be a top 10 qualifier anywhere (but Indy). Now I go to one and I can't even make the top half of the field. Now I haven't gotten any stupider (maybe) and my car is going faster so what happened? I've always called what happened "The ebb and flow of Stock Eliminator". Nothing that NHRA has handed out over the last few years has benefitted my combo AT ALL.
Where I'm going with this is that if the NHRA is going to change the way that it is going to "trigger" HP hits and stiffen the indexes then I believe that it's time for them to either "selectively" change the indexes or start from scratch and review the HP ratings of ALL combos based on some (I don't know what) standard! Line us all up once and leave us alone for the next 10 years!
NHRA has either "enhanced"or "refactored" or "defactored" or just plain"f**ked up" too many times in the recent past and if they want to make a change then I feel that they should either start from scratch with the indexes or the HP ratings. I'm pretty sure that they won't take on the HP ratings so why not the indexes?